

The Breaking Wave
Author: Nevil Shute
Narrator: Patrick Tull
Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/30/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Nevil Shute
Narrator: Patrick Tull
Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/30/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
The thing that keeps me coming back to Shute--and has made him one of my favorites--is his wonderful leading female characters. They're all different enough to make them worth reading, but still similar--smart, sensible, sturdy...in short, plucky. From Moira Davidson facing the end of the world (On......more
I'm trying to guess how many books I've read which in one way or another are about the Second World War. I've read a couple just in the last month, Wilcox's Japan's Secret War and Linebarger's Psychological Warfare. As usual, I was gripped by two contradictory emotions: horror and fascinatio......more